A tweet threatening Brazil sent in November by Maxime Hauchard, a French national identified as an executioner in Islamic State propaganda videos, was genuine.
The tweet read: ‘Brazil, you are our next target.’
Daesh used more than 30 car bombs in its Ramadi offensive. Many of these involved armored U.S. HMMWVs and some of the bombs were large enough to level an entire city block.
Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam. Zakat in the traditional sense is considered charity money to be used on deserving Muslims. However, it can also be collected by a state institution and the state can determine how to spend the money. As ISIS has declared and project themselves a state, they can […]
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter sees a variety of missions for the Pentagon’s new, secretive space center — and that includes fighting the Islamic State. The Pentagon chief said Thursday that the new Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center established by the Defense Department last fall has a role not only in preparing for potential […]
The Islamic State terror group declared a state of emergency in its de-facto capital of Raqqa, a U.S. military official said Friday. Col. Steve Warren said in a Pentagon briefing that officials were monitoring ISIS’ declaration to try and figure out what it meant. The extremist group reportedly began bolstering its supplies in its underground […]
The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has negotiated multimillion-dollar oil deals with the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), new documents retrieved from a U.S. raid against the radical Islamists’ oil chief have revealed. A U.S. special forces raid on ISIS’s oil minister—known by his nom de guerre Abu Sayyaf—in May 2015 saw the extraction of […]
Delta Force and Navy SEALs have crippled the group’s ability to recruit foreign fighters and put pressure on the network responsible for striking Europe and Africa. As the self-proclaimed Islamic State [Daesh] trumpets its global terrorist campaign, U.S. special operations forces have quietly killed more than three dozen key Daesh operatives blamed for plotting deadly attacks […]
If there really is Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] training camp eight miles into Mexico, then let’s go. I’ll bring the beer and you stock up on ammo, because we aren’t leaving them there. But we all know they are not and never were there.
A U.S. Marine who was part of the coalition fighting Islamic State was killed in a rocket attack by the militant group in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said in a statement on Saturday. It was the second combat death of an American service member in Iraq since the start of the campaign to fight the […]
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Editor’s Note: It’s always fantastic when we hear news like this. Our men and women continue to handle their business and pursue high-value targets as they present themselves, and this is a fantastic example. Both fixed-wing aircraft and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs) were responsible for this strike, a mission which resulted in the demise of […]
Editor’s Note: As we have mentioned before, one way to hurt an enemy’s ability to wage war is to deprive them of the means to pay for it. As the U.S. has stepped up its airstrikes against Daesh, one of the main targets has been financial centers. We even shared a video of one such […]
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